In this week’s Grand Rounds, Dr. Bob Wachter sits down with Dr. Atul Gawande for the 23rd Annual Reza Gandjei Memorial Lecture to discuss lessons from the pandemic, hope for the future, and changes needed in U.S. healthcare.
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Grand Rounds, the tracker and some people to meet
Recipe for an excellent news site? Reporters who do the work, readers who support the work.
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Vaccine trial data, hesitancy, and insight into Biden’s Covid-19 response
In this week’s UCSF Grand Round, Dr. Bob Wachter and a panel of experts discuss Phase 3 trial data for six vaccines, the emergence of new variants, how to communicate amidst vaccine hesitancy, and hear from two members of Biden’s COVID-19 Task Force.
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Decreasing Covid-19 case counts, vaccine rollouts, and understanding new variants
Dr. Wachter and a panel of experts discuss strategies for San Francisco’s vaccine rollout to the general public, decreasing case numbers in the U.S., and new covid variants, as well as the UK’s vaccine response.
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Vaccine rollout, herd immunity, and the threat of emerging mutations
Dr. Bob Wachter and others discuss the threat of emerging covid-19 variants, the threshold for herd immunity, and UCSF’s vaccine rollout for Phase 1a.
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UCSF Grand Rounds: CDC pandemic preparedness, UCSF vaccine distribution, and immunity passports
UCSF Grand Rounds explores questions surrounding the CDC’s pandemic preparedness, UCSF’s vaccine rollout, and the use of immunity passports.
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UCSF Grand Rounds: The status of schools and vaccine distribution as Covid-19 pandemic rages
Doctors discuss Covid-19 data across the nation, in California, and in schools to consider the question of reopening, in addition to vaccine rollout.
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UCSF Grand Rounds: The vaccine is coming — soon
Doctors say the vaccine is on a clear path to be “in the arms of the public” by late December
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UCSF Grand Rounds: A conversation on the election, the pandemic and the future of healthcare
During today’s Grand Rounds, UCSF Department of Medicine Chair and Grand Rounds moderator Bob Wachter called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. Sort of. In an unstructured conversation, Wachter and three panelists mused over the confluence of the presidential election, the coronavirus pandemic, and the United States healthcare system. Wachter approached his questions under […]
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Wisconsin frontline updates and weighing risks in the third wave of the pandemic
With 12 days until a highly contentious election, a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is appearing in various stages across the United States — California is a notable exception, at least so far—said Dr. Bob Wachter, UCSF Grand Rounds moderator and chair of the university’s Department of Medicine. Through on-the-ground updates from the Bay […]
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Did Trump leave the hospital too soon? And, was his giddy tweetstorm driven by steroids?
An unprecedented presidential diagnosis for Donald Trump calls for an unprecedented UCSF Grand Rounds discussion. Last Thursday’s news that President Trump and the First Lady tested positive for Covid-19 incited a lot of chatter from the American public, including medical experts like Grand Rounds moderator Dr. Bob Wachter. On Tuesday, he broke down what the […]
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Mayor Breed says the city hasn’t done enough for its Latinx residents
Also: applause for the city’s low death rate, and a reminder that much work remains Two days after hitting the “grim milestone” of 200,000 Covid-19 deaths in the United States, UCSF Grand Rounds moderator Dr. Bob Wachter brought in key local decision-makers, including Mayor London Breed; Dr. Grant Colfax, director of San Francisco Department of […]
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Mayor Breed says the city hasn’t done enough for its Latinx residents, resour
Also: applause for the city’s low death rate, and a reminder that much work remains Two days after hitting the “grim milestone” of 200,000 Covid-19 deaths in the United States, UCSF Grand Rounds moderator Dr. Bob Wachter brought in key local decision-makers, including Mayor London Breed; Dr. Grant Colfax, director of San Francisco Department of […]